Community Redevelopment Agency - Regular Meeting

Do you want this cable? Oh, okay. Got it. Hang on. I'll help you. Do you have it? all right tell me when you're ready fabulous good afternoon and welcome to the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Association meeting it today is Tuesday May 26 2026 and the time is 4 o 1

Chair Casale?

Would you call the roll?

Thank you. Chair Casale? Here. Vice Chair Mollica? Here. Deputy Vice Chair Markert?

Here.

Commissioner Burns? Here. And Commissioner Carney?

Here.

Do we have any amendments to the agenda, anyone? No. Renee does not. So can we get a motion, please, to approve the agenda?

Second.

Thank you. Vice Chair Mollica?

Aye. Yes.

Deputy Vice Chair Marker? Yes. Commissioner Burns? Yes. Commissioner Carney? Yes. And Chair Casale?

Thank you. And today we have a presentation from Rhonda Geiger at the Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics. Renee, did you have anything to add to this? No, just welcome Ms. Geiger.

Oh, thank you. Hello. And as I always say, calling it a presentation is a little overblown it's really not I'm just here to say hi I'll remind you that we are here again say we've now just had our 15 year anniversary we're moving really shifting toward complaints primarily to now answering questions so we're always happy to take phone calls we're always happy to write opinions I always like to remind everybody to think of three things before they they act the first is and I just went through I know I just went through this with the with the commission itself, but I'm going to say it again just in case people are listening, paying attention. We have to have a prohibited entity, so a relative, an outside business, something like that. We have to have a financial benefit, and that financial benefit has to be special, which means it has to impact a class of under 100 essentially. So before you take an action that will benefit one of those prohibited entities, just make sure you kind of run through that process and see whether or not there's going to be a benefit. So that applies to voting and it also applies to actions that we take just in our work and our decisions we make and things that we put forward. So remember that. Also, I think I just said, I think you guys are on your training cycle must be coming up. So I'll be happy to come out and do a live training. You know, I always enjoy coming to Delray. That's actually a great idea.

We do it for the staff every year, every summer.

Yeah, I do a live training for them almost every year. Every two years or every year? Every year, yeah. Frequently, though, so yeah. I'm happy to do live trainings. I mean, the video, we're finally updating the video, by the way. I know most of you have probably been like, don't laugh. That was mean. We're updating the video, but I do, there is so much more value. I think anybody that's taken the live training, there's so much more value to the live training than there is to just watching it on video. It's so much more interactive. I can actually ask questions. We give real life examples. So I really do recommend them and I am happy to come out Like I do one for Boynton Beach on a Saturday. So I'll fit it into my schedule. I feel like they're really important. And I think people get a better grasp of how it sort of dovetails with our day-to-day life when they hear the training in person.

Thank you, that's a very nice offer. So yes, let me know. We'll let you know if you, we'll let the board know as well in case anyone wants to stop by.

Great. Let me just see, did anybody have any questions? Ms. Malika?

Nope. All right, thank you again, everybody.

Mayor Carney, do you have any questions?

You were late. I have it right here. I'll get you one. I did ask everybody if they wanted them because I knew they... We just got them a month ago. Yeah, they've been repeated. So I can get you another book. No, no, no, I have several. Oh, so just being funny, were you? Okay. Any questions other than... Other than he didn't get a book?

Did you have any questions? No. We appreciate your coming.

I'm taking two of the live trainings with the League of Seas. Oh, yes, with Christy, yeah, great.

So, yes, let me know if you want the training. And otherwise, I'll see you guys next year. Thank you very much. Have a great day. Thanks for coming.

Okay, we are on to public comments. If anyone from the public would like to speak, please step up to the lectern, state your name and zip code. We have no public comments. Mr. Long, nothing for us today.

I'll save it for a commission.

Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate you. OK, looks like public comment is closed onto our consent agenda. We've already approved our agenda, and there were no changes. Do we have a motion and a second? For the consent.

Second.

Okay, would you call the roll? Commissioner Carney? Here. Chair Casale? Yes. Vice Chair Mollica? Yes. Deputy Vice Chair Markert?

Yes.

And Commissioner Burns?

Yes.

Thank you.

And we are on to 8A, which is an update and discussion on the 2026 amendment to the Delaware Beach Community Redevelopment Agency plan.

Good afternoon, commissioners. Christine Tibbs, assistant director. So we've been working on our amendment for a little bit, and the last time that you saw a draft of this was in August 2024. We have been working alongside Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council, and that draft that was presented in 2024 had up Included updates to the Florida statutes that impact the CRA input from community stakeholders residents property owners business owners CRA board and other city of officials updates to CRA district goals and needs updates to our projects programs initiatives and a slight reorganization to the structure in the format after which we did undergo a more substantial edit to and revision to the way that the document reads and the way that the document looks so that it's improved and it's more user-friendly, better pictures, better maps. And so this is what I will present to you today. This is the final 2026 amendment of the plan. Um, and it provides it, like I said, a more user-friendly framework for the redevelopment of our CRA district and the projects programs and initiatives and activities that we undertake, um, to revitalize and improve the conditions within our district. so the overview of the changes uh it retains the core subject matters of the current 2014 plan updates maps images graphics and project progress um and just you everyone on the dais has a full copy of the 2026 amendment yes um there's a more user-friendly design layout and content updates the cra needs and goals based on input feedback received um from the the parties that I just mentioned and includes updates within the Florida statute significantly from the 2019 update regarding CRAs. connects the CRA needs and goals, projects and programs and strategies to relevant Florida statutes so that we all know why we're doing what we're doing. Updates to the narratives that reflect current conditions, community needs and priorities, highlights ongoing projects and programs and their alignment with our CRA needs and goals, and incorporates updated demographic profiles for each subarea using the most recent census and projection data. And that's the full report of it is included as an appendix, which you also have in front of you. So we'll go into it. Retaining the core subject matter that was in our 2014 plan. So you'll see that on the left side is the 2014 table of contents. we've just highlighted that we've moved those into our current plan, but in a more user-friendly fashion so that you can better, more quickly understand where those things are in our plan. And then you'll see again, it just, the 2014 now on the right side, how we just condensed it and it's easier to read and just find where those things are in our current 2026 amendment. And this is the same slide. So before, whereas there were three pages of tables of contents with a lot of subsections, we now have just one simple, easy-to-read table of contents. Significantly, we've updated maps, images, graphics so that there's the cover, and now we have our pretty aerial of our C area district looking out to the beach. And then you'll see in 2014, we had those images that needed to be updated, maps that needed to be updated. So we've gone and had new images highlighting where our district is in comparison to the city boundaries, better quality aerials of our district, better quality pictures of different sections of our city. We've included more graphics, a timeline of our projects is included from 2014 to 2025. And that map, that word cloud that you see, those are the words that came out of our outreach meetings and then we shaped them into our district. So you'll see what was important from the community that came out of that that's been incorporated in our update. So enhances user-friendly design layout and content. So the condensed table of contents right there, you'll see the three pages moving into one. You'll also notice that we've color coded. We'll go back. We color coded all the sections. That color coding is translated throughout. So you'll see the red bar go across the red pages so you can quickly find where you are in our plan. teal bar, the orange bar, so you know you're in the financial section or the project section. So it all ties back to being more user-friendly and being able to find where you are in the plan more quickly. So that's where this is. Treasure Coast helped come up with the icon design for our needs and goals, so you can, again, more quickly see where projects fall in terms of which CRA need and goal is being fulfilled. And then we've also, so we've condensed the sections better for a more complete understanding. They were in two parts in the old plan and now we have just one section with all the sub area information rather than splitting it apart as it was in 2014. So then this is, Again, going back to making everything more user friendly with a more complete understanding, we've color blocked all of our needs and goals and then the strategies. They're all in the same section, so you can understand what the need is, what the goal is, what are the strategies we should be undertaking. to meet those needs and goals within our district and they all have the icon and it just reads easier more simple cleaner layout and that's where we were going with this you know further update from 2024. so now we've updated our needs and goals based on the input and feedback from the stakeholders and other members of the community and We've also incorporated the updates to the Florida statutes So you'll see that we used to have affordable housing and downtown housing split up into two different needs We've just combined that now into housing You'll see recreation and cultural facilities has been updated to public assets and facilities Infrastructure has been updated to infrastructure mobility improvements. We've added, importantly, policing innovation as it's called out in the Florida statutes as something that we can help accomplish. And then economic development has now been updated to development and investment. You'll see the definitions for those needs and goals and the icons tied into what we're trying to accomplish. And as mentioned earlier, we have been better about connecting those needs and goals with the Florida statute. So as we move through, you'll see highlighted, it's circled in yellow, the specific section in the Florida statutes that ties into that need and goal. And we've also spent significant time with Treasure Coast updating narratives to reflect current conditions, community needs and priorities. We've put those narratives at the forefront to highlight what we're doing, who we're doing it for, why we're doing it, what we're trying to achieve. So you'll see more qualitative narratives throughout the plan and significantly these are, some of these are highlighted at the very forefront before the sections and then they're also highlighted throughout. We've updated the neighborhood plan section to now include the set transformation plan that was recently updated and adopted. And then we've also incorporated it throughout the entire plan in different ways. Highlighting ongoing projects and programs and their alignment to CRA needs and goals. With Treasure Coast, we've come up with a table, and then you'll see that All of our projects and programs, there's a check mark as to which need and goal this project, this program, this initiative is helping us meet within the CRA district. So it's more easily understandable. And then, as I mentioned earlier, in other sections of the plan, you'll see it tying back to the Florida statutes. More examples of the overall narrative and projects and programs that were updated. You'll see that all the ones that are in our plan right now are long-term ongoing plans. We've taken out all the completed ones that we've since completed since 2014. This was in the 2014 plan as redevelopment projects. And then this is how it looks now, more understandable. Which need is each program helping us achieve those goals? And then you'll see the icons. And then you can go back to the CRA needs and goals section for the definitions for those needs and goals and the strategies that are within those needs and goals. So this is the 2014 plan and the 2026 amendment. Again, these are just the updated tables. And then the last thing is we did update the demographic data. So you'll see the income profiles have been updated and the race and ethnicity projections now go out to 2029. And the full profile is included as an appendix. And I'll go back. So any questions as to the update? Just basically how it looks now. comments it's like ten times better excellent well I just want to mention Dana from treasure coast is here and he was a big part in helping us get to the new design and layout that is way more user-friendly and more graphic forward as well yeah great job I mean it's designed beautifully it's user-friendly the color code is amazing great great work

same love this revised version I think someone with the teaching background has something to do with this because this definitely comes out of the classroom we use color for as a teaching tool so really appreciate this it makes it very easy to follow so when I go through it it's gonna be a breeze thank you Citations, the citation. Good marketing stuff, too. A combination. And you're a real estate person.

Fabulous.

We're humble down here.

I like this. You outdo yourselves all the time in a way that I find amazingly shocking, that you think the last plan couldn't have been better, and this is way better. Thank you, Dana, very much. But one quick question. When this is finalized and online, will this be interactive, clicking on links to get to different places? Or is this just going to be up as?

Well, we can make that happen.

I mean, do we think that we should? I actually don't know what the cost of that would be or what that looks like. But it's such fabulous information that I feel if there's a way that we could do that, we should probably do that.

Because we have, so I know we call it a set transformation plan out, but there's actually all the different area plans, the downtown master plan, Del Aida, all the plans are in there. So we could actually try to click those out so you could go to those links.

I mean, we have all the information up there. It's just a question of how do you make it the most accessible for the residents or the individuals who are looking at it. So I'll leave that to the experts. Thank you very much. I think this was outstanding.

Sounds like AI to me.

we'll figure something out we'll be creative so just for next steps just to mention so we have to bring this back we're still tweaking a few little things through the plan and doing a little bit of cleanup so and we also want to see if there's any comments from the board so if there's done we'll finish up on our end and we'll bring this back in July to adopt

So would you like us to each go through this and then respond to you with, and what's the timeframe for that? Within a month or so would be fine. Okay, so with everybody, we have a month to go through this and then send any email with any comments, questions, concerns, or thoughts.

Right, and then after the CRA board approves it, then it goes to the city commission for the city to approve. So we have to allow for that. Planning and zoning. Sorry, planning and zoning first. Thank you. So we have to allow that time, so. We just wanted to present this to you all since we're very near completion. So it was great.

Very exciting. Yes. Does that conclude? Yes. Oh, just one more thing.

Yes. So with this, the last plan amendment in 2014, the CRA sunset date was able to be extended through 2024. So the Florida statute allowed for the plan amendment to extend the life for 30 years. from 2014, 30 years, 2044. Then the statute changed, saying that the CRAs would sunset in 2039, except for approval with the governing body. The city did, on November 1st, 2022, through a resolution, did extend the CRA's sunset date through September 16th, 2044. However, with this plan amendment, we are hoping that Florida statute section 163.382 says that a CRA created before July 2002 has the ability to extend for 30 years from the, what is it? 30 years from the CRA plan amendment adoption.

Wow.

But not extending beyond 60 years from the creation date. So through this adoption of this amendment, we are hoping to extend the CRA until June 17th, 2045, because we were created in June 18th, 1985. A few more months. So just a few more months. That's still exciting.

I was going to say.

It's a few months. You just confused it.

Yeah. There's a lot in here. All I have to say for- just taking advantage of the entire 60 years that the statute allows us to be in existence right and it'll be important because as we look at bonding for different projects in the future i think every month that we can have silly in existence will be beneficial so that's something that will also present in more detail once we bring this back in july

Thank you so much. Appreciate this. Okay, we are on to New Business 9A, Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Draft Budget Overview.

Yes, okay. Good afternoon, everyone. So this is the time where we start looking at, oops, we look at, there we go okay so this is the time of year where we start looking at our budgeting for the next fiscal year so as you know a lot of our funding goes towards the city for different various projects and then we also budget for CRA projects as well so at this time we're just starting that process we have not received the city's budget request yet so we're just looking really high level so I just wanted to provide an overview of things that we typically find for the benefit of course of our new Commissioner as well and for those who have been here of what we usually find and kind of send the outlook of what we're looking at we don't have numbers attached to these things yet but they're just talking it generally and you'll see as with previous years a lot of our projects are continuing on from the year before because they are longer term projects. There's not a lot of new things, but this is also a chance if you guys have anything you wanna bring up or discuss, we can start talking about that now as we're starting the budgeting planning process. So here are the overall needs from our current plan. These will change as we adopt our new plan amendment, but this is what the current overall needs are in our CRA district. So this is what we use to come up with different projects that we're working on throughout the year. And this is what we just touched on with the extension, so this is the statute that we referred to before, so we won't go too far into it.

I don't know what's happening. It's okay. We can grab our slides if you'd like.

Yeah, we have it printed out for you. Okay, there we go. All right. So going on to the next couple slides. So if you recall last year, we set out a few slides that cover CRA priorities. So we have a work plan that's much more detailed, but we wanted to have a more condensed version. So, you can have this on the go if you want to look at what the priorities are that we're working on. So, we updated this with where we are currently on each of these projects and programs. And we broke it up into short-term and long-term planning initiatives, property management and activation. So, you'll see here we have all of the updates. The biggest thing we worked on through the year was really the set transformation plan, which you'll see is scratched off as complete. Yay. And then now we're working on our redevelopment plan, which will be complete as we go through the rest of this fiscal year. Jumping into property management, these are just our normal property maintenance things that we have that go on from time to time throughout the year. We're finishing up with 95 Southwest Fifth Avenue. I think that's the biggest thing that I'll call out. And we will be planning a ribbon cutting for that very soon. Next are CRA development projects, which we've talked a lot about. The biggest things I'll say is definitely West Atlantic Avenue. We have a few agenda items covering those later on in this meeting, but this is where we gave updates on all the different things that we're working on as far as property development.

And then last on this slide is demolition.

So as you know, at times we buy properties for the land and we have buildings that are dilapidated and need to be demolished. So we do have a few of these demolitions that we have on slate for this fiscal year. And this slide covers a few of the ongoing priorities that we have with the City of Delray Beach. And again, they're noting everything that's ongoing and what's been completed. I'll just call out that we did finish the accessory dwelling unit study with the City of Delray Beach, which is great because we also have our townhouse project that we're working on. So they kind of work hand in hand with this completion of this study. And you'll see the rest of the information here as ongoing. reports in the beginning of our agenda. We have full detail on updates on all of these projects if you want to see it in more depth. This was just a highlight of the CRA priorities for some of the more standout things we wanted to call out. And then on the bottom of this slide, I just want to keep it in the back of everyone's heads, we do have a future infrastructure project, a little asterisk there for the Southwest neighborhood infrastructure project. We're working on the Northwest, but I always like to throw in the Southwest so it doesn't get forgotten about as we budget year to year. But you also recall our years of existence are shortening and the project costs are getting higher and higher. So just something to think about. But I always want to just mention that we do have the Southwest project for a future project with the city of Delray Beach. And here's additional details. These are just, again, some little random type things. We've been in the process of updating or renovating our CRE office building. So that was the first thing on that slide. Okay, there we go. And that's a pretty big overhaul. So we are looking to relocate our HVAC system, which is currently underneath in our crawl space, into our actual office space, roof repair, siding repair, painting. So this is a pretty big project that we're well on the way and working on. Also another large project we've been working on pretty heavily is arts warehouse improvements. You'll see more about that in future agendas, but that's been a major renovation project there that is almost complete with the first part. We're starting to get into the roof and exterior work after we finish up the interior. And this is just a summary of other ongoing things. The list goes on and on. We try to make it as condensed as possible. This is going to turn off again. But that was an overview of our ongoing activities outside of the things that are in our work plan for the year.

All right. Sure. Would it be okay if Ms. Burns asks? Oh, sure.

I'm not seeing the link. Sorry. The Lake Ida property on here, what's the status of that?

So Lake Ida, we are going to be hiring an architect soon to start doing designs for what will be there, the homes. We were trying to wait for the accessory dwelling unit study. to do some multifamily there, but it is zoned single family. So we're going to start looking at that a little more in detail coming into the fiscal year. We'll budget for it. It'll be on for next fiscal years in the budgeting. This was just what we did for this current fiscal year.

Okay.

Yeah, for future, that will be on our project list. Yes, definitely. All right. Oh, actually we have it here. So this is a list of all of the affordable workforce housing sites that we have in the status. So you'll see actually Lake Ida is at the end of this one. This is for going forward into the future. This slide covers the typical funding requests received from the City of Delray Beach, so capital improvements is probably the biggest one.

Okay. I don't know.

Is it the clicker?

No.

It's the operator.

I know. Is it my clicker? Is someone else? Okay. Okay, so the typical funding requests from the city are capital improvement projects, clean and safe program, contractual services, which covers the housing rehab inspector, Northwest Southwest code enforcement officers, Northwest Southwest litter prevention officers, engineer inspector, two project managers for the CIP projects, and also IT services.

Okay.

Here are is an overview of the long-term projects, which the biggest one is Pompei Park Which we just discussed earlier in this meeting so we will have to discuss budgeting for that I'll work with Gina maybe doing a budget request in July or August so that we can look at where we can kind of shift some funds around To help start paying the additional for that project, but we do have 45 million currently in the budget So that's for sure already budgeted for Pompei, but we'll have to look at the additional

Could I ask a question with respect to that? It's still, we should have money in next year's budget. Will we really have to shift at this point, do you think, to make it work with the amount of money we currently have? I mean, we have whatever, $14 million in acquisitions, so clearly we could move money around and it won't be a problem. But the way this is laid out, we shouldn't really need it in the immediate future, all of it at any rate.

Not all of it, but I think we have to see what we're getting from the city and the county and what we're budgeting for now. So we'll probably be able to get a substantial amount of that. The biggest one is the Northwest Neighborhood Infrastructure Project, and the cost estimates were high. So it's really those two that are the biggest ticket items that we have. but we don't know the amount we're getting from the city and the county.

But the Northwest we're doing with bonds, so this money is just what we have in our budget and what we plan on acquiring in the future. Correct, exactly, yes. Coming into the next fiscal year.

Right, so we will end up budgeting. We'll have to look at it. I think we should have a better idea by July, so maybe we won't have to do a budget amendment. Maybe we will, but once the city enters in the contract.

I don't think we would.

Probably not. We typically transfer the funds to the city once the city enters into the contract, and then the money is managed that way. So once the contract is approved, we will do the transfer for the 45. I'll discuss that with Public Works to get that done right away, and then we can look at the rest as we go forward. Thank you. So the other one is Northwest, which, yes, we are looking at the bond for that. We were trying to save up some money to see if we could help with that bond number. But we had to shift some funds out for Pompei recently from the last budget amendment, and now we're looking at this one. But again, we are looking at the bonds, so I just talked to Henry actually about that. I told him we need money. So it's typically the city would issue the bonds, and then we pay the debt service. Got it. So we have to start that conversation again because the city started the project with the CM at Risk recently. So we do have to get going on that pretty soon. Every year that goes by, every month that goes by, it's less time that we have in existence. So we do need to start working on that. And then again, I'll call out the Southwest Neighborhood Project because that still is on the list of to-dos. And long-term projects, obviously West Atlantic Development is the biggest thing that we have going. and then assessing other opportunities in other sub-areas. I think that's something still in the future if we want to look at that. I think we've been really, really focused, as you can see, with budgeting and all of our discussions on developing West Atlantic because that is the area of biggest need right now. But as we come up with plans and things for the area, we can maybe start looking at assessing other sub-areas, considering funding availability because we have such large amounts of funding projects that we have in the West Atlantic. So these are just pictures of the vacant blocks. I'll just kind of go through these quickly. But this is the Northwest 600 block where we're looking at the affordable townhouses with the accessory dwelling units. Next is the Northwest 800 block, which we have an item on our agenda today to discuss the RFP that's in the drafting phase. This is also an area where we have a few pieces of property on the Northwest 900 block. We also have a few on the Northwest 1000 block. Southwest 600 block is where we received the unsolicited proposal for the supermarket commercial space. Southwest 700 block, which we also have an RFP on the agenda to cover this area, and also the Southwest 800 block. We also own a bit of property behind the Fairfield and on the Southwest 900 block. And that is all for the property. So next step is basically to review the city's budget request actually prepare the draft budget and then start working on the work plan. So I think we should hopefully get the budget request from the city soon. I'm not sure. We usually ask for it by May, the end of May. So we'll see what happens. Oh, Gina wanted to say.

Yeah, I was told it was probably going to be mid-June.

Okay. So mid-June we'll have the budget request from the city. So hopefully by July we'll have something a little more concrete with numbers to be able to present to you, if not then August.

Thank you. Any questions? Mayor Carney?

No. No.

Ms. Burns? Yeah. Mr. Marker?

I'm good.

Ms. Mulligan? OK, thank you. Then on to 9b, discussion and direction regarding requests for proposals for the development of the southwest 700 and 800 blocks of West Atlantic Avenue.

Yes. Okay. So we're going to be starting with the request for proposals for the Southwest 700 and 800 blocks. So I will start this by saying that we, I recently had a conversation with the individuals that provided the unsolicited proposal. They're still looking at and assessing if it could be shifted and what opportunities they have there. So I'd like to go through the RFP so that we have them prepared. If we need to make any adjustments, we can do that later. But I don't know if we

in the position at this point to issue until that is resolved since they're still looking at the other block that came up at the first meeting if that's okay I'm still not positive that we shouldn't give the people options to do all three six seven and eight as opposed to carving them up You may find someone with more of a master plan kind of a concept that could be useful to us. But maybe you build it into the HRP saying, if you want to also do the other and create us a master plan, just invite them to do that and do it the way you are. And I don't know that they're going to do that. I just...

But they could do unsolicited right now. If they submit for the 7-8, they could just put in an in addition to we'd like, you know, so I mean...

think anyone who has enough knowledge about the area and what's going on probably knows where we're at perhaps maybe I'm mistaken in thinking that but right we can I think well we need we actually need the unsolicited group to come back so we have the second meeting and that's when we go we vote yes or no so I was just checking it to see where they were at I guess they're still in that assessing and trying to respond to the comments that we had so once we have that meeting then we'll know where we're going with that block. But I know they were also assessing as part of the comments about relocating it potentially. So that's why it's a little bit tricky and difficult to have a concrete issue date for these RFPs since they're still looking at that. And we still need to have a second meeting to be able to say yes or no and do the next vote that we need to do.

Do we have an anticipated date for the second meeting?

Not yet. That's what I was trying to assess from them, but they are, I guess, still looking at it. So hopefully I'll follow up with them again next week. They said there was someone out of town that would be back next week, and maybe we'll have some more information at that time. So we at least wanted to get these RFPs finalized. We incorporated the comments that we had at the last meeting. So we just wanted to go through those really quickly. I can definitely say this is a well, also well thought out RFP that is extremely comprehensive. And if we need to shift it to a different block, we can do it pretty easily because I think the The bones of it is there. This incorporates all the past RFPs, lawsuits and comments and everything are in these documents. So I think they're very comprehensive. So we'll just go through the changes very quickly and then that's it. We'll just come back. Our next meeting isn't until July. If we need to have a special meeting in the meantime, we can reach out and schedule that if they're ready so we don't have to wait until July. All right, so here's an overview image of the properties. And this is a highlight of the changes that we made. So we had discussed the architectural styles of the last meeting, building heights, the affordable workforce housing unit count, also using additional CRA properties as offsite workforce units, and also we looked at the evaluation criteria. So here are the properties. This is the Southwest 700 block, and this is the Southwest 800 block.

That's OK.

So for the architectural style, we decided to have five architectural styles, so the Florida vernacular, Anglo-Caribbean, Main Street vernacular, Mediterranean Revival, and classic traditional. And here are pictures of what each of those look like. And the building height, we did state that the code allows for four. However, the set your information plan and there's been a preference stated for three to give the flexibility in case somebody wants to propose the three, but we did not want to limit it just to three. So, this gives the flexibility if they want to just follow the code with the four. We also asked for the residential component to be at least 40% for the workforce low, moderate units. And then we also made an allowance for offsite workforce units. So right now we have five vacant that are in the area. If we want to include these, we can. If we acquire more and we want to throw those in there too, we can as well. Or we could develop them before. But we just wanted to put this option in that it takes the pressure off of the actual development that they have some offsite units that would be available in case you would like to take advantage of that. And here's where they're located. We don't have many units left, and that's something we'll talk about in July, is just the cost of buying lots is getting really expensive. So these are lots that we've just had over the years that we are trying to incorporate into this project to get them developed. Otherwise, we can look at developing them otherwise, but the costs are just getting really expensive. So, we only have five right now that would be available to be used in this project. And then we also highlighted our CRA incentive opportunities, the development infrastructure program, land value investments, and any other opportunities that the successful proposer would like to discuss, or a co-ownership or master leasing with the CRA. So we're still working on the language for the first two programs with Sana as our attorney. But in concept, these are the programs that we've had for many years that we're just updating right now. And we included in the submittal requirements if there's any proposed zoning change. We didn't really call this out the first time, but we just wanted to highlight that because when we did this for the Southwest 600 block, six, seven, 800 years ago, the Southwest 600 block was fully rezoned for that entire block. So we just kind of thought we should include that here if there's any proposal to rezone any blocks that we would want to know about that in advance and they need to call out how they would go about doing that. And then this is the evaluation criteria. I know there were some questions that came up about the financing structure, fiscal impact. So we split that up a little bit. So it was a little bit more clear as to what we were looking for based on what we're asking for in this particular RFP. So most of the changes took place in the financial structure and the fiscal impact. So the financial structure is really more so about what their project is and their audits and their financial statements and their financial information. Fiscal impact, which we put that at five points, is how their project impacts, which is very speculative. So we just included that at a 5% and broke it out from the financial structure just to make it more clear. And then basically next steps, is there any other comments that the board has you can let us know? We have here discussion issue date, but I think we should... pulled off until we actually have more information about what's happening with the Southwest 600 block so that we know what we're putting out.

Any comments, Ms. Mollick?

No, I agree with holding off. Mr. Marker?

I totally agree with holding off.

Yeah, same thing. And thank you for this very comprehensive, if I can understand it, it is comprehensive. Thank you.

We're ready to go then. We did it.

mayor and i don't have any additional comments either thank you that was a lot for you to incorporate from our comments and i appreciate it um did you need anything else from us no that's it okay thank you so we're on to 9c discussion and direction regarding requests for proposals for the development of the northwest 800 blocks of west atlantic avenue so i'll just say same um yes i know a lot of this is the same but since there are two different

RFPs essentially they're structured that way right now again if this changes later on we can adjust it but this one a little more unique because it does have that remediation site included right so they do have to address how they're handling that so that's why we did it as a separate agenda item and RFP so I'll skip through here's a picture of the block by the way I'll skip through some of the early comments about the architectural style building height those are all pretty much the same as the previous one So this is a summary of the parcels, same design guidelines and design standards. Here are the five again. And then we also had the building height as exactly the same, the maximum four, but the allowance and preference for three if they'd like to go that route. The residential component here was 30%, not 40%. Right. And then we only have one parcel on this north side that could accommodate for off-site workforce housing. That's actually within the block. I could show you a picture of that. So we included this if somebody wants to use that as off-site workforce housing. It's right here at the back.

Where is that?

This is the Northwest 9th and Northwest 1st. So this is within the same block, just on 1st. Same comments for the incentives and opportunities. We're still working on drafting and revising the two programs. Also, we incorporated the same change for the addition for the zoning for them to identify if they are planning to rezone and how they would go about doing that and why. And then for the evaluation criteria, we made the same changes with the fiscal impact and the financial structure, but we also had here about the remediation information. So that's something that's different to this one. So that's addressed in the proposed project development, but same point structure overall.

Thank you. One thing, we're buzzing through the slides quickly. You have the 30% residential on that, but did we want to give a particular component of commercial? We had talked about how this property should probably have a commercial component, but we didn't really identify how much of a commercial component. Are we leaving that? flexible just to see what we get well by code it has to be on at the Atlantic Avenue has to do on top of that we want to do additional then that's what we'd have to add that in there if you would like to do that um I get no I just want to make sure I know it has to be right on the front but I thought we were talking about it more as a as primary commercial with some element of But I guess at this point, we just have to wait to see what the applications look like. Right.

I mean, we can add that in here if you'd like, if there's a desire of the board to add that we'd like to see a higher level of commercial or maybe office space or something, or we can look at language and bring that back to the board. but since it had the Atlantic Avenue that we didn't add on top of that but we can we just did less of the affordable workforce on this particular parcel right I guess should you think before we ask you to dive into more should we wait and see what the grocery situation is because that could answer that question yes please I mean have you done I mean I happen to be with a grocery over the weekend used to run a big grocery chain and

And he said that there are studies done as to what side of the road it should be on. He said he doesn't know whether the north side of the road is better than the south side for a grocery store, for example. Are we getting market studies to tell you which the best The activity we could do with a commercial activity rent, whatever are we doing we getting?

We don't have it ourselves. I guess we're taking it from the grocer from they are what they write exactly Right, I can ask if they are we had JLL assessed grocery stores generally We can go and ask them if they would do a separate study, but we didn't do it particular life my expertise expertise I'm just saying this what they described to me and they said because

It's very important what side of the road you're on. I'm sure Aldi's figured that out and said they want it there, so that's fine. But when you're doing commercial and other activities, we need to know what kind of commercial would go there so we can say this is what we'd like to have.

We'd have to pay for that. They typically don't share that with us because they don't want their competitors seeing it. But just having come out of that world myself, they have teams of people. This is all they do for a living because they can't afford to make a site mistake. They spend a lot of money on it. I'm sure they do. We did it off of Steepo, I can tell you right now.

I'm sure you did.

So do we want to just leave this as it is at the moment until we hear back from the grocer with respect to potentially moving to this location? Or do we want to have further engagement with respect to what we want to see here?

Do we know if the grocer's also looking at this location? We asked them to last time.

Oh, they are as well? OK. Yes. That's part of the questions and the comments that they're addressing.

I vote for waiting.

OK. We should wait to see what the grocer does, comes back with it.

OK, thank you.

It shouldn't be too long, right?

A couple weeks?

No, no, no. I think we'll have something pretty soon.

Okay, so I think the consensus is we just wait until we hear further with respect to the grocer on that block. Do you need anything else from us?

No, that's all. We'll finalize these documents, and whenever we're ready to issue, we know we have a document ready to go. We don't have any lead time on preparation.

Fabulous. Thank you. So we are. Oh, sure.

I just have a question about another property. I keep all these properties in my head. What about the Garroway property on Northwest 10th and 1st?

Ganaway. So that one, we're planning to issue for that to be built now, an RFP now, exactly. So we were looking at some of the parcels we have that are more into the neighborhoods that we are going to be coming back and asking the board to issue those. If we want to shift those into this project, we can. But we are planning to have an item on our July meeting about housing.

So we can... No, I just wanted to know, because I know that it's available now and it wasn't listed as an available property.

Right. So we actually have about three or four parcels in there that some across the street that we're going through some replatting and different things. were planning to put those all out because it's kind of like a two street block that we can put out in advance of this or again we can include it in here so when we bring it up in july we can we can show you all of those parcels and see if we want to wait but yeah that would make a really good impact though that's why we wanted to put it out earlier so it wouldn't have to wait thank you that's a big piece yes great so that concludes our new business and we are on to other business uh comments by our executive director So we have a CRA social. So this is where we invite members of the public in the community just to come and meet us and talk to us and get to know our staff a little bit more, get to know a little bit more about the projects. This isn't really like a formal presentation necessarily unless it becomes that. But we found it's a really great way to engage with members of the public in a more casual, informal way. There are stations that will be set up around the room that you can learn more about what we're doing at the CRA. And this particular one, we've invited the businesses on the northwest, southwest Fifth Avenue So we can come and have a meet and greet. So hopefully we'll have a lot of them there. But we wanted to focus this really on Fifth Avenue and getting to know the people that are business there on Fifth. So please come and join us if you can. That'll be next Thursday from 5 to 7. And that's all I have. Thank you.

Thank you. To our attorney, any comments? Thank you. To the board.

Mayor Carney?

No, thank you.

Ms. Burns? No. Mr. Marker?

No, thank you.

Ms. Smolica? Nothing for me. Okay, well, I would just say thank you again to our staff, and I wanted to say our executive director's evaluation was sent to all of us, and we should get that in as quickly as possible. And thank you, Mr. Doody. It's lovely seeing you. Have a great evening.